Spice flagged as drugs at Bhopal airport, HC awards man Rs 10 lakh after 16 years

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• A 16-year legal battle finally ended in relief for a Gwalior-based man after the Madhya Pradesh High Court awarded him Rs 10 lakh compensation for being wrongly jailed for 57 days in a drug case triggered by a bizarre airport security mi up involving a common kitchen spice.
• The case dates back to 2010, when Ajay Singh arrived at Bhopal’s Raja Bhoj Airport to board a flight to Delhi.
• During routine security screening, an explosive detector machine raised an alert while scanning his luggage.
• Read Full Story Security personnel then carried out a detailed search and recovered a powder-like substance from his bag.
• Suspecting it to be a narcotic substance, officials detained Singh without conducting adequate verification.